El contexto del informe presenta varios aspectos que marcaron el ámbito económico y social durante el mes de febrero. Entre ellos, destacó el anuncio de la implementación de un conjunto de medidas económicas aplazadas temporalmente. Se registró un incremento en la frecuencia de los cortes de electricidad y en los [...]
El año 2024 en Cuba comenzó como lo presagió el cierre del 2023: mal. La situación económica en declive, las políticas gubernamentales ineficaces, los desafíos persistentes de la migración irregular, el incremento de la violencia y la constante represión siguen definiendo la realidad diaria de los cubanos. Continúa la escasez [...]
The last month of the year reaffirmed everything that 2023 has been for Cuba: poverty, violence, governmental incompetence, and repression. “We are continuity!” repeated the regime's representatives in each of their speeches, and, at least in these aspects, they fully lived up to expectations. The end of the year, a date that traditionally [...]
November was a month of intense political activity for the Cuban regime, both on and off the island: the Universal Periodic Review at the UN, high-level trips and visits, the signing of agreements, and business fairs; however, perhaps none of this marked daily life more than [...]
While Cuba is re-elected as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council, during the month of October the Cubalex monitoring team recorded 304 human rights violations committed by authorities on the island and the quality of life of the [...]
September was a difficult month for Cubans. Repression, shortages, blackouts, increased crime, and the official announcement of another escalation in the perpetual economic crisis. Meanwhile, for the regime, it was a period of spending on summits, trips, rallies, propaganda abroad, and gourmet food festivals. Throughout the month [...]
During the month of August, the Cubalex monitoring team recorded 205 repressive incidents that occurred in 46 municipalities across all provinces of the country. The province with the highest number of recorded incidents was Havana (78), and the municipalities with the most incidents were Guanabacoa (25), Camagüey (14), and Santiago [...]
Within Cuba, the date led to a considerable increase in the figures for repression, which will be shown in the following section; at the same time, several protests were registered in prisons and on the streets. The month of July was marked by the second anniversary of the anti-government protests of July 11th [...]
For the second consecutive month, a massive protest took place, this time in the municipality of Mayarí, Holguín province, due to water supply problems in that area. The social crisis continued to grow in Cuba during June 2023. For the second consecutive month, a massive protest took place, this time [...]
While the first mass protests in 2021 and 2022 occurred in July, in 2023 they happened two months earlier, demonstrating once again that, despite the repression, the citizen rebellion that began with June 11th remains alive. May was the month in which social protests reignited [...]
